Is addiction a disease? From a medical perspective, are substance use disorders (SUDs) on par with, say, heart disease—if not, how do they differ? Source: Jesse Orrico/Unsplash These questions are ...

What is addiction? It is enduringly difficult to say. Our methods of treating addiction have become, over time, both more compassionate and more effective. Yet the nature of addiction itself remains ...

Indra Cidambi is a psychiatrist who specializes in addiction. She is the founder and medical director of the Center for Network Therapy in Middlesex, New Jersey's first licensed outpatient addiction ...

Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington ...

While the current opioid epidemic has captured the attention of the country and its policy makers by becoming the leading cause of death in the United States for those younger than age 50, addiction ...

Addiction is a worldwide problem affecting individuals across various social and economic backgrounds, gender and age. Legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco as well as illicit drugs can be addictive.

One of the architects of the Minnesota Model of addiction treatment, Rev. Gordon “Gordy” Grimm was a big deal at Hazelden back in 1996, when William Cope Moyers began working as a policy analyst on ...